When it was first unveiled in 1980, Andy Warhol's series of images of famous Jews, called "Ten Portraits of Jews in the Twentieth Century," was greeted with some of the most shrill criticism Warhol ever got. | Jan. 11, 2014»Read Full Article(1)

Few rockers have married the literary and the musical as powerfully as Nick Cave, who put St. John of the Cross and Johnny Thunders in the same verse of a song and sounded completely natural doing so.

Cave visits the Milwaukee Theatre for an 8 p.m. concert Friday with decades of music to draw from, much of it compellingly dark, such as his 1996 collection "Murder Ballads." If the Misfit in Flannery O'Connor's story "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" had formed a band, I'm sure it would have sounded something like Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds. | June 18, 2014»Read Full Article(1)

Present Music, which has performed all over town and played music in coffee shops and a drained swimming pool, is staging Saturday's season finale, "Home Place," in the Broadway Theatre Center, its own administrative home.

Touching, sometimes lightly, on themes of home, shelter and belonging, "Home Place" will feature a bulked-up Present Music ensemble — 17 musicians and 3 sopranos — performing "Shelter," a collaborative composition by Bang on a Can composers David Lang, Julia Wolfe and Michael Gordon, and librettist Deborah Artman. | June 18, 2014»Read Full Article

Over the decades, Present Music has commissioned new music from dozens of composers and introduced Milwaukee listeners to the work of many others. It has not, however, gone all-in on a single composer for a full concert.

Next season, artistic director Kevin Stalheim will change that, with a program devoted to the music of longtime PM friend and collaborator Kamran Ince.| June 18, 2014»Read Full Article

Good morning readers. We're hoping it's a good day. Here's some of what's going on in town today.

What would your Wednesday be without a traveling beer garden, or biergarten to be precise. This 19th-century tradition has gone mobile and will be in McKinley Park starting at 4 p.m. The last beer is served at 9 p.m. sharp. | June 18, 2014»Read Full Blog Post